'extract from a book' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a quotation or summary of a book. For example, "This extract from a book gives us an insight into the author's views on the human condition."
It's an extract from a book".
It was always an extract from a book.
"Oh, now Ronson's saying it's an extract from a book," someone wrote.
Meanwhile China Newsweek published an extract from a book that included descriptions of students carrying banners in 1989 that praised Hu as a "fighter for youth" and a "leader of democracy".Few, though, believe a Beijing spring to be imminent.
This text apparently being passed around Momentum meetings is reportedly an extract from a book by Channel 4 News's arch piss-taker Michael Crick about Militant, a sizeable "Trotsky entryist" group which was expelled from the Labour Party in 1991.
Restoring technology after the apocalypse Lewis Dartnell | Scientific American | 2 May 2014 Extract from a book in which an astrobiologist collates the information survivors would need to recover if society were ever to collapse.
Adapted from Tolkien's standalone novel, Jackson's three part series demonstrates how much a filmmaker can extract from a single book, turning a three hundred page book into nearly eight hours of screen time.
An extract from a new book looks at how the world's biggest pop star became the hero of broken-hearted teens by building her career on passive-aggressive score-settling.
Source: The Conversation Hat tip: HoldTheFrontPage NB: Dodson's piece is an edited extract from a forthcoming book, Lost for words: can journalism survive the slow death of print? to be published by Abramis in January 2017 *In the original version, the owner of the Folkestone Herald was wrongly identified as KM group.
The following article is an extract from a new book, The Jihadis Return: Isis and the New Sunni Uprising, by Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent.
